Remember a couple days ago
I finally started to work on the garden space is allocated? I was a
little intimidated I I must confess. But I jumped in and started the
process. I got the small shovel to work the dirt and jumped in and
dug up some of the dirt in my box. That was my start and that was
about all that I did for a couple days. I needed to get some plants
the transplant into the box. They have starts over at the True Value
but there's also sort of a nursery across the street from my
apartment complex. They have a lot of nice plants so I figured that
would be the place I would go.
It was midmorning by the
time I finally got over to the nursery. I'm still trying to figure
out the operation. I think it is run by a fellow and his wife. Over
the morning as I visited with the proprietor began to fill me in that
he used to work at this place when he was much younger and then the
guy who owned the place was diagnosed with stage III prostate cancer
and basically asked the fellow to take over the operation. I sensed
the owner went fast. I later found out the current owners think Eric
and when I asked him when did he shut the operation down for winter
he said December 26. I can hardly believe that until he explained
that at the end of the growing season he ships in truckloads of
pumpkins and other fall type plants and decoration plants i.e. corn
stocks and the such. Then of course after Halloween and Thanksgiving
he has Christmas trees. It all made sense. After Christmas he shuts
down for about eight weeks all starts again in early spring. How cool
is that?
Eric was super helpful and
that spending about 20 bucks, I didn't realize it was that much I
bought tomatoes what I thought was a a dollar and $.88 for a section
of four plants and actually it was a dollar 88 times 4. I bought
peppers one zucchini, four tomatoes,basil, purple Sage, parsley there
is another herb I purchased but I can't remember what it was. Oh, I
also got lemongrass and orange marigolds. The last group of plants I
was instructed was for pest control. I knew about marigolds and
tomatoes but I've never used lemongrass for insect control.
I really expected this
planting expedition was going to take the rest of the morning and
probably all afternoon however one of the seniors happened to see me
working came out and offered to assist which was more than happy she
also had some great ideas of where to place my starts. We visited a
lot while she helped me and I really appreciate your input. She also
shared with me where the faucet and hose and sprayer was. I had
prepared myself to carry bottles of water out to the garden boxes. We
finished the whole project in about an hour and I was e free for the
rest of the day.
I really enjoyed meeting
beginning to know my new friend Eric. It's great that he is just
across the street in this little gardening Mecca. I don't know why I
feel this way but I sense I'm going to be seen a great deal more of
him this summer.
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